Decentralized cooperative exploration: Implementation and experiments

Intelligent Autonomous Systems 10, IAS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 348-355

  Franchi, Antonio ^a   Freda, Luigi ^a   Marchionni, Luca ^a   Oriolo, Giuseppe ^a   Vendittelli, Marilena ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cooperative exploration; Decentralized algorithms; Multi robot systems

Indexed keywords

COMPACT DATA STRUCTURE; COOPERATIVE EXPLORATION; DECENTRALIZED ALGORITHMS; KHEPERA; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; RANDOM GRAPHS; ROADMAP; SAFE REGION; TASK DECOMPOSITION;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 76249111198     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-58603-887-8-348     Document Type: Conference Paper

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